m12.
André Gide’s resentment of social convention (in common with Balzac, Flaubert, Sartre and Nathalie Sarraute) is discussed by J.C. Davies (1995), in his introduction to the translation of Gide’s Les Faux-Monnayeurs, p 27. For a critique of sincerity, see Lionel Trilling (1971), Sincerity and Authenticity.